For a long time, outside of some dazzling old-school stuff, I became pretty resistant to the “art” of speed shredding…..obvs it’s impressive when a musician can wail and zip around the fretboard, but that rarely exemplifies SOUL, which is crucial for speaking to this guy’s musical heart.

Having said thaaat, I’ve recently re-opened up a bit to maniac shredders, even love me some young tigers to death. DEATH!!!!!!!!!!

But the below guys border on rishdickulous…..unless if you’re just entertaining the fam at jome — what’s the point?

Tiago Della Vega shreds on MySpace…..eh

-KW

The best way to describe it is as a touch-style multi-string instrument that incorporates both bass and regular guitar gauge strings on one oversized neck, for a variety of sound options. A hominah hominah homainah WHA?!? I was impressed enough back in the day when Alpha-Boy pulled out his custom double-neck guitar (one six-string neck for standard electric strings, and the other six-string neck fretless, for all your wanna-be sitar needz), but I guess you just can’t keep those shredders down, no matter how much you stab em in the jugular.

The Warr Guitar was created and developed by some dude in sunny California named Mark Warr (hence the name…der) in the early 90s, and seems to be in secret use around the world by some of the shreddiest face-melters out there. A commenter on my recently-posted review of 8/8/08′s Knitting Factory Intronaut/Mouth of the Architect/Behold…the Arctopus show made mention of the instrument (which is used by one of B…tA’s shred monkeys — see this weekend’s extra-proggy SSTGST), and for extremely good reason: it’s fucking ridonkculous.

BUT…doesn’t the mere utilization of this instrument no doubt shape the sound of the music itself by the inevitable need to…well, to SHRED??? I definitely could stand to do a bit more research on this, but I would imagine that only the most advanced players out there could respectably step up to the Warr Guitar and put that biatch to good use — namely, by diddely-doodely-diddely-deeing all the way to fucking Jupiter. But could any Warr Guitar player employ the merits behind the age-old acronym K.I.S.S.??? I sincerely doubt it, but it would be a pleasure (and most likely an aural treat) to be proven wrong on that one.

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Crustcake posted a tremendous video of this young lad shredding it up for the video camera. Yeah, the kid can play — but his technical chops pale in comparison to his face-making, winking, and bedroom theatrics. A+++++

-VN